[ATM] New ...12" ultralight dob - Light weight rocker box

["Alan Scott" <alanne1956@hotmail.com>]

>
>See: http://members.aol.com/NGC704/16.htm
>
>I also keep a telescope checklist attached to the scope while it languishes 
>at home awaiting its next outing. Has items like "primary mirror", "strut 
>tubes", "ladder", etc., on it...
>
>Cheers,
>Kurt Maurer
>League City, Texas
>http://members.aol.com/NGC704/

Now THAT is a beautiful 16".  One question - I had to stiffen up the trusses 
and the rocker box to get rid of vibration. It REALLY helped.  But, you seem 
to have one of the most open rocker boxes that I have ever seen.  Is it 
stiff?  Do you have vibrational issues with all of the wood cut out of your 
sides/bottom?

I have to say that you (and Mel) really are really getting the ideas flowing 
in my head.  Now, if I can get this 12" scope small enough and light enough 
to slide into my backpack, we will have arrived.

Oh - EXCELLENT idea on the list.  I think I will put one in my eyepiece box 
right now.  Thanks.

alan

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